Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law. - Matthew 5:18
Every Jot and Tittle: All the Commandments in the Bible
Maimonides List
365 Negative Mitzvot
- Don't believe in or ascribe any diety to any but Him - Ex 20:3
- Don't make images for the purpose of worship - Ex 20:4
- Don't make an idol for others to worship - Lev 19:4
- Don't make figures of human beings - Ex 20:20
(Ex 20:20 says nothing about making human figures. Ex 20:23 says don't make gods of silver and gold.) - Don't bow down to an idol - Ex 20:5
- Don't worship idols - Ex 20:5
- Don't hand over your children to Moloch - Lev 18:21
- Don't practice sorcery of the ob - Lev 19:31
- Don't practice sorcery of the yidde'oni - Lev 19:31
- Don't study idolatrous practices - Lev 19:4
- Don't erect a pillar which people will assemble to honor - Dt 16:22
(Don't set up an image that God hates.) - Don't make figured stones on which to prostrate yourself - Lev 26:1
- Don't plant trees in the sanctuary - Dt 16:21
- Don't swear by an idol - Ex 23:13
(Ex 23:13 says not to mention the names of other gods.) - Don't summon people to idolatry - Ex 23:13, Dt 13:12
(Neither verse says anything about this.) - Don't seek to persuade an Israelite to worship idols - Dt 13:12
(Dt 13:12 says nothing about this.) - Don't love a person who seeks to mislead you to idols - Dt 13:12
(Dt 13:12 says nothing about this.) - Don't relax one's aversion to the misleader - Dt 13:9
- Don't save the life of a misleader - Dt 13:9
- Don't plead for the misleader - Dt 13:9
- Don't suppress evidence unfavorable to the misleader - Dt 13:9
- Don't benefit from ornaments which have adorned an idol - Dt 7:25
- Don't rebuild an apostate city - Dt 13:17
- Don't derive benefit from property of an apostate city - Dt 13:18
- Don't increase wealth from anything connected with idolatry - Dt 7:26
- Don't prophesy in the name of an idol - Dt 18:20
(Dt 18:20 says to kill anyone who prophesies in another god's name.) - Don't prophesy falsely - Dt 18:20
(Dt 18:20 says to kill false prophets.) - Don't listen to the prophesy of one who prophesies in the name of an idol - Dt 13:4
- Don't have pity on a false prophet - Dt 18:22
- Don't adopt the habits and customs of unbelievers - Lev 18:3
- Don't practice divination - Dt 18:10
- Don't regulate your conduct by the stars - Dt 18:10
- Don't practice the art of the soothsayer - Dt 18:10
- Don't practice sorcery - Dt 18:10
- Don't practice the art of the charmer - Dt 18:10
- Don't consult a necromancer who uses the ob - Dt 18:10
- Don't consult a sorcerer who uses the yido'a - Dt 18:10
- Don't seek information from the dead - Dt 18:10
- Women may not wear men's clothes or adornments - Dt 22:5
- Men may not wear women's clothes or adornments - Dt 22:5
- Don't imprint any marks upon your body -Lev 19:28
- Don't wear a garment of wool and linen - Dt 22:11
- Don't shave the temples of your head - Lev 19:27
- Don't shave your beard - Lev 19:27
- Don't make cuttings in your flesh - Lev 19:28, Dt 14:1
- Don't settle in the land of Egypt - Dt 17:16
- Don't accept opinions contrary to those taught in the Torah - Num 15:39
- Don't make a covenant with the seven nations of Canaan - Dt 7:2-3
- Don't fail to observe the law concerning the seven nations - Dt 20:16
- Don't show mercy to idolaters - Dt 7:2
- Don't allow idolaters to dwell in our land - Ex 23:33
- Don't intermarry with the heretics - Dt 7:3
- Don't intermarry with a male Ammonite or Moabite - Dt 23:4
- Don't exclude the descendants of Esau - Dt 23:8
- Don't exclude the descendants of Egyptians - Dt 23:8
- Don't offer peace to Ammon and Moab - Dt 23:7
- Don't destroy fruit trees during a siege - Dt 20:19
- Don't fear the heretics in time of war - Dt 7:21
- Don't forget what Amalek did to us - Dt 25:19
- Don't blaspheme the Great Name - Lev 24:16
(Lev 24:16 says to stone blasphemers to death.) - Don't violating a shebuat bittui - Lev 19:12
- Don't swearing a shevuas shav (vain oath) - Ex 20:7
- Don't profane the name of God - Lev 22:32
- Don't test His promises and warnings - Dt 6:16
- Don't break down houses of worship - Dt 12:4
- Don't leave the body of a criminal hanging overnight after execution - Dt 21:23
- Don't interrupt the watch over the sanctuary - Num 18:5
- The high priest must not enter the sanctuary at any but the prescribed time - Lev 16:2
- A priest with a blemish must not enter any part of the sanctuary - Lev 21:23
- A priest with a blemish must not minister in the sanctuary - Lev 21:17
- A priest with a temporary blemish must not minister in the sanctuary - Lev 21:18
- Levites and priests must not perform each other's allotted services - Num 18:3
- Don't enter the sanctuary or give a decision on any law of the Torah while intoxicated - Lev 10:8-11
- A zar (nonpriest) may not minister in the sanctuary - Num 18:4
- An unclean priest may not minister in the sanctuary - Lev 22:2
- A priest who is tevul yom may not minister in the sanctuary - Lev 21:6
- An unclean person may not enter any part of the sanctuary - Num 5:3
- An unclean person may not enter the camp of the Levites - Dt 23:11
- Don't build an altar of stones which have been touched by iron - Ex 20:22
- Don't ascend the altar by steps - Ex 20:23
- Don't extinguish the altar fire - Lev 6:6
- Don't offer any sacrifice whatever on the Golden Altar - Ex 30:9
- Don't make oil like the oil of anointment - Ex 30:32
- Don't anoint anyone except the high priest and king with the oil of anointment prepared by Moses - Ex 30:32
- Don't make incense like that used in the sanctuary - Ex 30:37
- Don't remove the staves from their rings in the ark - Ex 25:15
- Don't remove the breastplate from the ephod - Exodus 28:28
- Don't tear the edge of the high priest's robe - Ex 28:32
- Don't offer any sacrifice outside the sanctuary court - Dt 12:13-14
- Don't slaughter any of the holy offerings outside the sanctuary court (by inference from Lev 17:3-4)
- Don't dedicate blemished beasts to be offered on the altar - Lev 22:20
- Don't slaughter blemished beasts for sacrifice - Lev 22:22
- Don't dash the blood of blemished beasts upon the altar - Lev 22:24
- Don't burn the sacrificial portions of a blemished beast on the altar - Lev 22:22
- Don't sacrifice a beast with a temporary blemish - Dt 17:1
- Don't offer blemished sacrifices of a gentile - Lev 22:25
- Don't cause an offering to become blemished - Lev 22:21
- Don't offer leaven or honey upon the altar - Lev 2:11
- Don't offer a sacrifice without salt - Lev 2:13
- Don't offer on the altar the hire of a harlot or price of a dog - Dt 23:19
- Don't slaughter the mother and her young on the same day - Lev 22:28
- Don't put olive oil on the meal offering of a sinner - Lev 5:11
- Don't put frankincense with the meal offering of a sinner - Lev 5:11
- Don't mingle olive oil with the meal offering of suspected adulteress - Num 5:15
- Don't put frankincense on meal offering of suspected adulteress - Num 5:15
- Don't change a beast that has been consecrated as an offering - Lev 27:10
- Don't change one holy offering for another -Lev 27:26
- Don't redeem the firstling of a clean beast - Num 18:17
- Don't sell the tithe of cattle - Lev 27:33
- Don't sell devoted property - Lev 27:28
- Don't redeem devoted land without any specific statement of purpose - Lev 27:28
- Don't sever the head of the bird of sin offering during melikah - Lev 5:8
(Wring off its head, instead.)- Don't do any work with a dedicated beast - Dt 15:19
- Don't shear a dedicated beast - Dt 15:19
- Don't slaughter the Passover offering while leaven bread remains in your possession - Ex 23:18
- Don't leave the sacrificial portions of the Passover offering overnight - Ex 23:18
- Don't allow any of the meat of the Passover offering to remain until morning - Ex 12:10
- Don't allow any of the meat of the festival offering of the 14th of Nisan to remain remain until the third day - Dt 16:4
- Don't allow any of the meat of the second Passover offering to remain until morning - Numbers 9:12
- Don't allow any of the meat of the thank offering to remain until morning - Lev 22:30
- Don't break any of the bones of the Passover offering - Ex 12:46
- Don't break any of the bones of the second Passover offering - Num 9:12
- Don't remove the Passover offering from where it is eaten - Ex 12:46
- Don't bake the residue of a meal offering with leaven - Lev 6:17
- Don't eat the Passover offering boiled or raw - Ex 12:9
- Don't allow a ger toshab to eat the Passover offering - Ex 12:45
- An uncircumcised person may not eat the Passover offering - Ex 12:48
- Don't allow an apostate Israelite to eat the Passover offering - Ex 12:43
- An unclean person may not eat hallowed food - Lev 12:4
- Don't eat meat of consecrated offerings which have become unclean - Lev 7:19
- Don't eat nothar - Lev 19:6-8
- Don't eat piggul - Lev 19:6-8
- A zar (non-priest) may not eat terumah (heave offerings) - Lev 22:10
- A priest's tenant or hired servant may not eat terumah - Lev 22:10
- An uncircumcised priest may not eat terumah - Lev 22:10 (Lev 22:10 says nothing about this. Not found anywhere else in the Torah)
- An unclean priest may not eat terumah - Lev 22:4
- A chalalah may not eat holy food - Lev 22:12
- Don't eat the meal offering of a priest - Lev 6:16
- Don't eat meat of sin offerings whose blood has been brought within the sanctuary - Lev 6:23
- Don't eat invalidated consecrated offerings - Dt 14:3
(Dt 14:3 says nothing about invalidated consecrated offerings.)- Don't eat the unredeemed second tithe of corn outside Jerusalem - Dt 12:17
- Don't consume the unredeemed second tithe of wine outside Jerusalem - Dt 12:17
- Don't consume the unredeemed second tithe of oil outside Jerusalem - Dt 12:17
- Don't eat an unblemished firstling outside Jerusalem - Dt 12:17
- Don't eat the sin offering and the guilt offering outside the sanctuary court - Dt 12:17
- Don't eat the meat of a burnt offering - Dt 12:17
- Don't eat lesser holy offerings before dashing their blood on the altar - Dt 12:17
- A priest may not eat first fruits outside Jerusalem - 12:17
- A zar may not eat the most holy offerings/a> - Ex 29:33
- Don't eat an unredeemed unclean second tithe, even in Jerusalem - Dt 26:14
- Don't eat the second tithe during mourning - Dt 26:14
- Don't spend the redemption money of the second tithe except on food and drink - Dt 26:14
- Don't eat tevel (produce from which heave offering and tithes have not been taken) - Lev 22:15
(Lev 22:15 says nothing about tevel, heave offerings, or tithes.)- Don't alter the prescribed order of harvest tithing - Ex 22:28
- Don't delay payment of vows - Dt 23:22
- Don't appear on a festival without a sacrifice - Ex 23:15, Dt 16:16
- Don't infringe on any oral obligation, even if undertaken without an oath - Num 30:3
- A priest may not marry a zonah - Lev 21:7
- A priest may not marry a chalalah - Lev 21:7
- A priest may not marry a divorced woman - Lev 21:7
- A high priest may not marry a widow Lev 21:14
- A high priest may not have intercourse with a widow - Lev 21:15
(Lev 21:15 says nothing about widows.)- Priests with disheveled hair may not enter the Sanctuary - Lev 10:6
(163 - 165 referred only to Aaron and his surviving sons after God killed Nadab and Abihu.)- Priests may not wear rent garments when entering the sanctuary - Lev 10:6
- Ministering priests may not leave the sanctuary - Lev 10:7
- A common priest may not defile himself for any dead person except those prescribed in Scripture - Lev 21:1
- A high priest may not be under one roof with a dead body - Lev 21:11
- A high priest may not defile himself for any dead person - Lev 21:11
- Levites may not acquire a portion in the land of Israel - Dt 18:1
- Levites may not share in the spoil on conquest of the land of Israel - Dt 18:1
(Dt 18:1 says nothing about the spoils of war.)- Don't tear out your hair for the dead - Dt 14:1
- Don't eat any unclean animal - Dt 14:7
- Don't eat any unclean fish - Lev 11:11
- Don't eat any unclean fowl - Lev 11:13
- Don't eat any swarming winged insect - Dt 14:19
- Don't eat anything which swarms upon the earth - Lev 11:41
- Don't eat any creeping thing that breeds in decayed matter - Lev 11:44
- Don't eat living creatures that breed in seeds or fruit - Lev 11:42
- Don't eat any swarming thing - Lev 11:43
- Don't eat nevelah - Dt 14:21
- Don't eat terefah - Ex 22:30
- Don't eat a limb of a living creature - Dt 12:23
(Dt 12:23 says nothing about eating a limb of a living creature.)- Don't eat the gid ha-nasheh (sinew of the thigh vein) - Gen 32:33
(Gen 32:33 is an explanation for why Jews don't eat the sinew of the thigh vein. It is not a commandment.)- Don't eat blood - Lev 3:17, 7:26, 17:14
- Don't eat the fat of a clean animal - Lev 7:23
- Don't cook meat in milk - Ex 23:19, 34:26; Dt 14:21
- Don't eat meat cooked in milk - Ex 23:19, 34:26; Dt 14:21
- Don't eat the flesh of a stoned ox - Ex 21:28
- Don't eat bread made from grain of new crop - Lev 23:14
- Don't eat roasted grain of the new crop - Lev 23:14
- Don't eat fresh ears of grain - Lev 23:14
- Don't eat orlah - Lev 19:23
- Don't eat kilai ha-kerem (a vineyard sown with different kinds of seeds) - Dt 22:9
(Dt 22:9 says not to plant a vinyard with different kinds of seeds. It says nothing about eating the results.)- Don't drink yain nesech (libation wine for idol worship) - Dt 32:38
- Don't eat or drink to excess - Lev 19:26, Dt 21:20
(Lev 19:26 says nothing about either of these things.)- Don't eat on Yom Kippur - Lev 23:29
- Don't eat chametz during Pesach - Ex 13:3
- Don't eat anything containing chametz during Pesach - Ex 12:20
- Don't eat chametz after the middle of the fourteenth of Nissan - Dt 16:3
- No chametz may be seen in your habitation during Pesach - Ex 13:7
- Don't possess chametz during Pesach - Ex 12:19
- A Nazirite may not drink wine - Num 6:3
- A Nazirite may not eat fresh grapes - Num 6:3
- A Nazirite may not eat dried grapes - Num 6:3
- A Nazirite may not eat the kernels of grapes - Num 6:4
- A Nazirite may not eat the husks of grapes - Num 6:4
- A Nazirite may not rend himself unclean for the dead - Num 6:7
- A Nazirite may not rend himself unclean by entering house containing a corpse - Lev 21:11
- A Nazirite may not shave - Num 6:5
- Don't reap all all the harvest - Lev 19:9
- Don't gather ears of corn that fell during the harvest - Lev 19:9
- Don't gather the whole produce of the vineyard at vintage time - Lev 9:10
- Don't gather single fallen grapes during the vintage - Lev 9:10
- Don't return for a forgotten sheaf - Dt 24:19
- Don't sow kilayim (diverse kinds of seed in one field) - Lev 19:19
- Don't sow grain or vegetables in a vineyard - Dt 22:9
- Don't mate animals of different species - Lev 19:19
- Don't work with two different kinds of animals together - Dt 22:10
- Don't prevent a beast from eating of the produce amidst which it is working - Dt 25:4
- Don't cultivate the soil in the seventh year - Lev 25:4
- Don't prune trees in the seventh year - Lev 25:4
- Don't reap a self-grown plant in the seventh year as in an ordinary year - Lev 25:5
- Don't gather self-grown fruit in the seventh year as in an ordinary year - Lev 25:5
- Don't cultivate the soil in the Jubilee year - Lev 25:11
- Don't reap the aftergrowths of Jubilee year as in ordinary year - Lev 25:11
- Don't gather fruit in Jubilee year as in ordinary year - Lev 25:11
- Don't sell your holdings in Israel in perpetuity - Lev 25:23
- Don't sell the open lands of the Levites - Lev 25:34
- Don't forsake the Levites - Dt 12:19
- Don't demand the payment of debts after the Sabbatical year - Dt 15:2
- Don't withhold a loan to be cancelled by the Sabbatical year - Dt - 15:9
- Don'tfFail to give charity to our needy brethren - Dt 15:7
- Don't send away a Hebrew bondman away empty handed - Dt 15:13
- Don't demand payment from a debtor known to be unable to pay - Ex 22:24
- Don't lending at interest - Lev 25:37
- Don't borrowing at interest - Dt 23:20
(Dt 23:20 says nothing about paying interest when borrowing -- only about charging interest when lending.)- Don't participate in a loan at interest - Ex 22:24
- Don't oppress an employee by delaying payment of his wages - Lev 19:13
- Don't take a pledge from a debtor by force - Dt 24:10
- Don't keep a needed pledge from its owner - Dt 24:12
- Don't take a pledge from a widow - Dt 24:17
- Don't take in pledge food utensils - Dt 24:6
- Don't abduct an Israelite - Ex 20:15
(Maimonides interpreted "stealing" as kidnapping.)- Don't steal money - Lev 19:11
- Don't commit robbery - Lev 19:13
- Don't fraudulently alter land boundaries - Dt 19:14
- Don't usurp your debts - Lev 19:13
- Don't repudiate your debts - Lev 19:11
- Don't swear falsely in repudiating a debt - Lev 19:11
- Don't wrong one another in business - Lev 25:14
- Don't wrong one another by speech - Lev 25:17
- Don't wrong a proselyte by speech - Ex 22:20
- Don't wrong a proselyte in business - Ex 22:20
- Don't hand over a fugitive bondman - Dt 23:16
- Don't wrong a fugitive bondman - Dt 23:17
- Don't deal harshly with fatherless children and widows - Ex 22:21
- Don't employ a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks - Lev 25:39
- Don't sell a Hebrew bondman by public auction - Lev 25:42
- Don't employ a Hebrew bondman on unnecessary work - Lev 25:43
- Don't allow the maltreatment of a Hebrew bondman - Lev 25:53
- Don't sell a Hebrew bondmaid - Ex 21:8
- Don't afflict one's espoused Hebrew bondmaid - Ex 21:10
- Don't sell a captive woman - Dt 21:14
- Don't enslaving a captive woman - Dt 21:14
- Don't plan to acquire another's property - Dt 5:18
- Don't covet another's belongings - Dt 5:18
- A hired laborer may not eating growing crops - Dt 23:26
- A hired laborer may not put of the harvest in his own vessel - Dt 23:25
- Don't ignore lost property - Dt 22:3
- Don't leave a trapped person - Ex 23:5
- Don't cheat in measurements and weights - Lev 19:35
- Don't keep false weights and measures - Dt 25:13
- A judge must not commit unrighteousness - Lev 19:15
- A judge may not accept gifts from litigants - Ex 23:8
- A judge may not favor a litigant - Lev 19:5
- A judge must not be deterred by fear from giving a just judgment - Dt 1:17
- A judge must not decide in favor of poor man through pity - Ex 23:3, Lev 19:5
- A judge must not pervert justice against person of evil repute - Ex 23:6
- A judge must not pity one who has slain a man - Dt 19:13
- A judge must not pervert the justice due to proselytes or orphans - Dt 24:17
- A judge may not to listen to one of the litigants in the absence of another - Ex 23:1
(Ex 23:1 says noting about this.)- A court may not convict in a capital case by a majority of one - Ex 23:2
(Ex 23:2 says nothing about this.)- A judge may not rely on the opinion of a fellow judge - Ex 23:2
(Ex 23:2 says nothing about this.)- Don't appoint an unlearned judge - Dt 1:17
- Don't bear false witness - Ex 20:13
- A judge may not receive a wicked man's testimony - Ex 23:1
- A judge may not receive testimony from litigant's relatives - Dt 24:16
(Dt 24:16 says nothing about this.)- Don't convict on the testimony of a single witness - Dt 19:15
- Don't kill a human being - Ex 20:13
- Capital punishment may not be based on circumstantial evidence - Ex 23:7
(Ex 23:7 says nothing about circumstantial evidence.)- A witness may not act as an advocate - Num 35:30
(Num 35:30 says nothing about this.)- Don't kill a murderer without trial - Num 35:12
- Don't spare the life of a pursuer - Dt 25:12
(Dt 25:12 says nothing about this.)- Don't punish a person for a sin committed under duress - Dt 22:26
- Don't accept a ransom from one who has committed willful murder - Num 35:31
- Don't accept a ransom from a one who has committed murder unwittingly - Num 35:32
- Don't neglect to an Israelite in danger of his life - Lev 19:16
- Don't leave obstacles on public or private domain - Dt 22:8
- Don't give misleading advice - Lev 19:14
- Don't inflict excessive corporal punishment - Dt 25:2
- Don't bear tales - Lev 19:16
- Don't hate one another - Lev 19:17
- Don't put one to shame - Lev 19:17
- Don't take vengeance on another - Lev 19:18
- Don't bear a grudge - Lev 19:18
- Don't take the entire bird's nest - Dt 22:6
- Don't shave the scall - Lev 13:33
- Don't cut or cauterize signs of leprosy - Dt 24:8
- Don't plough a valley in which the rite of eglah arufah has been performed - Dt 21:4
- Don't permit a sorcerer to live - Ex 22:17
- Don't take a bridegroom away from his home - Dt 24:5
- Don't differ from traditional authorities - Dt 17:11
- Don't add to the written or oral law - Dt 13:1
- Don't detract from the written or oral law - Dt 13:1
- Don't curse a judge - Ex 22:27
(Maimonides interpreted "gods" to mean "judge".)- Don't curse a ruler - Ex 22:27
- Don't curse an Israelite - Lev 19:14
- Don't curse parents - Ex 21:17
- Don't strike parents - Ex 21:15
- Don't work on the Sabbath - Ex 20:10
- Don't journey on the Sabbath - Ex 16:29
- Don't punish on the Sabbath - Ex 35:3
- Don't work on the first day of Pesach - Lev 23:7
- Don't work on the seventh day of Pesach - Lev 23:8
- Don't work on Atzereth - Lev 23:21
- Don't work on Rosh Hashana - Lev 23:25
- Don't work on the first day of Sukkoth - Lev 23:35
- Don't work on Shemini Atzereth - Lev 23:36
- Don't work on Yom Kippur - Lev 23:31
- Don't have intercourse with your mother - Lev 18:7
- Don't have intercourse with your father's wife - Lev 18:8
- Don't have intercourse with your sister - Lev 18:9
- Don't have intercourse with the daughter of your father's wife if she is your sister - Lev 18:11
- Don't have intercourse with your son's daughter - Lev 18:10
- Don't have intercourse with your daughter's daughter - Lev 18:10
- Don't have intercourse with your daughter - Lev 18:10
(This one is missing from the list in Lev 18 and is found nowhere else in the Bible.)- Don't have intercourse with a woman and her daughter - Lev 18:17
- Don't have intercourse with a woman and her son's daughter - Lev 18:17
- Don't have intercourse with a woman and her daughter's daughter - Lev 18:17
- Don't have intercourse with your father's sister - Lev 18:12
- Don't have intercourse with your mother's sister - Lev 18:13
- Don't have intercourse with the wife of your father's brother - Lev 18:14
- Don't have intercourse with your son's wife - Lev 18:15
- Don't have intercourse with a brother's wife - Lev 18:16
- Don't have intercourse with a sister of his wife during the latter's lifetime - Lev 18:18
- Don't have intercourse with a menstruant - Lev 18:19
- Don't have intercourse with another man's wife - Ex 20:13, Lev 18:20
- Men may not lie with beasts - Lev 18:23
- Women may not lie with beasts - Lev 18:23
- A man may not lie carnally with a male - Lev 18:22
- A man may not lie carnally with his father - Lev 18:7
- A man may not lie carnally with his father's brother - Lev 18:14
- Don't be intimate with a kinswoman - Lev 18:6
- A mamzer may not have intercourse with a Jewess - Dt 23:3
- Don't have intercourse without marriage - Dt 23:18
- Don't remarry your divorced wife after she has remarried - Dt 24:4
- Don't have intercourse with woman subject to a Levirate marriage - Dt 25:5
- Don't divorce a woman you have raped and been compelled to marry - Dt 22:29
- Don't divorce a woman after having falsely brought an evil name upon her - Dt 22:19
- Man incapable of procreation may not marry a Jewess - Dt 23:2
- Castration - Lev 22:24
- Don't appoint a king not born an Israelite - Dt 17:15
- A king may not own many horses - Dt 17:16
- A king may not take many wives - Dt 17:17
- A king may not amass great personal wealth - Dt 17:17